GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 163, 4 August 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

A MISSING STEAMER, By Gable.—Press Association.—Copyrigj Received a, 9.5 p.m. m , London, August 3. The cruisers Forte and Pandora have left Simonstown and Durban respective* ly to search for the Waratah. It v is probable thait the latter's machinery broke down during the recent heavv gales and that the Waratah drifted southward.

A CEMENT AMALGAMATION. Received 3, 10.30 p.m. Ottawa, "August 3. An amalgamation of the principal Canadian cement companies has lieen effected. with a capital of ,t5,(H)(l,(IU(). GERMAN COMMERCE. Received August 3. 10.30 p.m. Berlin, August 3. Tile German Commercial Treaties Association is urging the Chancellor of the limpire to appoint a trade expert in Canada.

FlltK AT A (IKR.MAX FAIR. Received 3, 11.2i> ji.ni. . . . London, August 3. I lie ignition of Hie iilm <>f a cinematojfrnjih set lire to a theatre in Dresden during a fair. Two hundred stalls and all round-abouts were burnt and 50 people injured in the panic that ensued.

GIFT TO THE NATION'. London, August Mr. Ernest SdiitV, sharehroker has presented £ 100,000 to build a Ilome of Recovery hi connection with the London Hospital, in memory of his brother Alfred, who died of consumption.

GREAT FIRE IX JAPAN. Tokio, August 2. An area of four miles was burnt at Osaka Japan, 1.1,000 houses being destroyed. 8

THE 'AMERICAN TARIFF, -in. . . i>cw York - August 2. Im? American House of Representatives, by 105 votes to 173, adopted the tanlf as amended by the conference of botn Houses. The figures were greeted r?uV^ r Jtepublicaii demonstration, eighteen of the Western Republicans voted against the Bill. TICKET-OF-LEAVE. London, August 2. • V,!!!?'.' " IC ' ,oxcr » who was sentenced | in 1002 for frauds on the Rank of Liverpool will be released on tieket-of-leave on August 10. CHOLERA IN INDTIA. Calcutta, August 2. (MX European nurses died of cholera at the Presidency Hospital in Calcutta.